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The Chiorri Winemakers Company is a vineyard under family management, which with special care from their very own vines, produces D.O.C. Colli Perugini and IGT dell'Umbria white, red and rosè wines. The family, together with the help of experienced workers,...
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The first traces of Bisol family in the heart of the Prosecco D.O.C area date to the 16th century and are contained in a census carried out for fiscal reasons by the aristocratic Venetian family Da Pola, who were landowners of the leading the very prestigious...
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Country House Palazzone was built in medieval times and is located not far from Rocca Ripesena in the area northwest of Orvieto, in Umbria. This building is an exceptional example of a country residence: it possesses all the characteristics of a town...
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The CASTELLO di BOSSI is located in the commune of Castelnuovo Berardenga, on the road that leaves the old Chiantigiana road, at Pianella, and ascends to Brolio amidst evergreen forests and long rows of vines. With its centuries-old trees, its fossil...
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Hundred and ten years of vinegrowing starter at the end of 1800 when Francesco Marcato bought the first 3 hectares of vineyards in Roncà. Afetr few years he started to produce also the white wine Soave with the Garganega and Trebbiano di Soave grapes....
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Church of St. Antonio the Abbot
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In Queen Elena Square, the church was first built around 1702-1703 thanks to the income deriving from the gold jewels that the earthquake survivors gave to the Christ at the column. The staute of 1610, made of painted wood and plaster, was positioned on the Baroque-style altar made in the '70s of the XVIII century with worthy marbles. Roccocò stuccoes and painting representing the Church's Doctors and the Evangelists, portrayed on the unique nave's wall, belong to the same period and can be attributed to Ermenegildo Martorana. Charity and Faith are represented on the vault; the Glory with Maria, St. Teresa d'Avila and St. Agostino are showed at the centre. Jaspers and onyx make the main Neoclassical altar really valuable. A big painting adorns it and shows St. Antonio Abate praying. In 1713 it was given to the holy building by the "cannamilari", sugar-cane farmers. The organ is by Platania brothers and dates back to 1838-1839.
(source: Avola, la città esagonale)